Part II

[Nicholas Wilson]

On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 10:30 -0500, Eliott Turner wrote:
>  
> Nicholas
>  
> Can you get me the command and it's placement for entering the
> password to a WEP and a WPA essid, when connecting to the internet
> from the terminal.
>  
> $ sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid "myNetwork"
> $ sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed
> $ sudo dhclient wlan0
>  
> Thanks 
> eliott
> 
> 
> 

Connecting to encrypted wireless access points from the commandline can
be quite complicated.

A much better guide than I could write can be found here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=571188